Oh, absolutely. There are plenty of successful, purpose-built protocols that used UDP before it was cool: DNS, NTP and RTP, to name a few."
DNS and NTP are built over UDP because they are light weight applications. RTP is built over UDP because you don't care about loss.
Hell even DNS still uses typically uses TCP when doing zone transfers between DNS servers because of the amount of data involved.
What point is the author trying to make with this statement?
"are you serious?
Oh, absolutely. There are plenty of successful, purpose-built protocols that used UDP before it was cool: DNS, NTP and RTP, to name a few."
DNS and NTP are built over UDP because they are light weight applications. RTP is built over UDP because you don't care about loss. Hell even DNS still uses typically uses TCP when doing zone transfers between DNS servers because of the amount of data involved.
What point is the author trying to make with this statement?